Letter to the Editor: One less bull in the Tieton Dr. herd...

[biggdogg]

Why is it okay to ride snowmobiles four wheelers and all that crap to hunt with in my opinion that is just as bad as indians herding elk with a truck and shooting them. Anybody that has to use a atv, snowmobile or motorcycle are not hunters they should be considered poachers.

[boneaddict]

Might as well open it up to all hunters.  Shoot em all.  Why practice any sort of conservation. 

[Jack Diamond]

Might as well open it up to all hunters.  Shoot em all.  Why practice any sort of conservation. 

Sad that so many play by all the rules, and end up with tag soup , but still go out next year vowing to work harder and do it the right way. I guess the good guys just don"t always win!

[boneaddict]

By the way, that hunt is 50 permits total, antlerless, and as called by the WDFW for damage control.   It sounds like to me you should have called the WDFW and reported a poacher.   It was probably a poacher or just another one of your folks out subsitence hunting.  Not sure if you recognize all tribal rigs.  

[biggdogg]

My as well some people might get a life other than out looking for the few dumb chit yakanas that don't care about the bad name they give the yakama's  

[biggdogg]

I know the trucks that have been hunting the nile and hanson's pond and I know for a fact they would not shoot and leave an elk to lay and rot.

[boneaddict]

You'll note I didn't blame just tribal hunters.   and.....personally I think all big game hunting should be done by now, and I agree alot with your snowmobile, atv etc. post.   
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,65250.0.html

[boneaddict]

Are you friends with the guys hunting the feeding station?   and do you think that is OK?

[biggdogg]

No not. Friends with them and disagree with hunting the feeding station but I disagree with feeding elk to just setting them up to starve what happens to elk if sometime in the future for some reason they don't get fed, just like the welfare in my opinion. By they way hope the clover springs guys get punished to the max

[boneaddict]

Good for you.   Not a big fan of feeding stations either.   Lots of range out there for them.  We are training them like puppy dogs. 

[biggdogg]

I agree with u about everbody should be done hunting by now every elk killed has a pretty good sized baby in it well I would think so for being pregnant for up to 3 or so months now

[bobcat]

I really dislike the feeding stations too. But without them, we'd have a lot less elk. The better alternative would have been to preserve a large portion of what would have been their winter range but instead it is houses, pavement, orchards, crops, etc. But that didn't happen and it's too late now.

[biggdogg]

I see elk every day at work that don't get fed but they stay up in the deeper snow even without hunting pressure. The feed lot. has the elk spoiled so they come running down the hill with very little snow and its part of the cycle elk die every year its natural to have to feed youself and not get everything handed to u on a platter. Like everyone on the site says the handouts need to stop. 

[BlackRidge]

I'd rather have feed stations and better numbers of elk than let them fend for themselves AND have these idiots thinning them out 

Think of the stations as the states attempt to cope with outside factors

[Jack Diamond]

Feed stations suck , why don"t you just buy washington grown  beef, if you think that feedlots are great the feed stations do nothing more that consolidate the numbers into a large herd mentality, not the right way. what"s the difference between elk and deer, or is the populace convinced that elk cannot survive without hay! B.S. they can survive if goody 2 shoes could tend to their own business, and let them be elk and not zoo animals for the masses to see in feeding grounds.